Fountain Inn, Travelers Rest to ask voters about Sunday alcohol sales

11:00 AM,
Oct. 2, 2013

Written by

Paul Alongi
| Tribune-Times Writer

Ballot questions in Fountain Inn and Travelers Rest reflect how the fight over Sunday alcohol sales has played out since voters shot down a 1999 referendum that would have allowed liquor by the drink across Greenville County.

Rather than have one war for the whole county, the battle has been fought one city at a time. The result is a patchwork of laws, a pattern that dominates the Upstate map.

While some Upstate cities have opened the door to Sunday alcohol sales, they mostly remain banned outside those municipal boundaries. ...